MURMELLIUS, Johannes (1480-1517). Versificatoriae artis rudimenta . Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 31 July 1515. 4° (189 x 138mm). Title printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut printer's device on final verso. Gothic types. 47 lines, shoulder notes. Initial spaces. 19th-century calf-backed pastepaper boards, flat spine gilt. Provenance : contemporary annotations. A rare edition of a grammatical text book. Murmellius was a chief contributor to the humanist goal of replacing medieval schoolbooks with humanistic ones. A contemporary reader has annotated the text with reference to the rules and usage of Aldus Manutius and Francesco Filelfo. He also shows interest in explaining the difficult devices in the metre of Horace and Catullus. Nijhoff-Kronenberg 3586, recording 3 copies (Copenhagen, Stockholm and Sélestat). NOT IN NUC.
MURMELLIUS, Johannes (1480-1517). Versificatoriae artis rudimenta . Deventer: Jacobus de Breda, 31 July 1515. 4° (189 x 138mm). Title printed in red and black. Full-page woodcut printer's device on final verso. Gothic types. 47 lines, shoulder notes. Initial spaces. 19th-century calf-backed pastepaper boards, flat spine gilt. Provenance : contemporary annotations. A rare edition of a grammatical text book. Murmellius was a chief contributor to the humanist goal of replacing medieval schoolbooks with humanistic ones. A contemporary reader has annotated the text with reference to the rules and usage of Aldus Manutius and Francesco Filelfo. He also shows interest in explaining the difficult devices in the metre of Horace and Catullus. Nijhoff-Kronenberg 3586, recording 3 copies (Copenhagen, Stockholm and Sélestat). NOT IN NUC.
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